Marine
The club
Marine Association Football Club are a club from Crosby, Merseyside, England, nicknamed the Mariners and the Lilywhites. The club is not any Marine side from another country. The match brief described them as a Northern Premier League club; Wikipedia and a fan site both list them in the National League North for 2026-27, a division above, and this dossier follows those sources. Wikipedia gives the founding as 1894. They play at Rossett Park, Crosby, with a capacity of 3,058 of which 519 is seated, and plan a new 5,000-capacity stadium in Thornton. The home kit is white shirts with black trim, black shorts and socks; the away kit was traditionally yellow and green, recently blue, with supporters choosing an all-green kit for 2025-26.
Wikipedia lists Bobby Grant as manager since 2025. Roly Howard managed from 1972 to 2005, completing 1,975 games. A fan-site page read for 2026-27 did not name the manager.
Recent seasons
Marine were relegated to the Northern Premier League Division One North West in 2018-19, the club's first relegation. In 2021-22 they finished fifth and won the play-offs to reach the Premier Division. They won the Liverpool Senior Cup in 2022-23 and 2023-24, and in 2023-24 won the Northern Premier League Premier Division play-off and were promoted to the National League North. In 2025-26 they finished 12th of 24 there and reached the FA Trophy semi-final, losing 1-0 to Wealdstone.
Honours and landmarks
Northern Premier League Premier Division champions in 1993-94 and 1994-95 and play-off winners in 2023-24; Northern Premier League Challenge Cup winners in 1984-85, 1991-92, 2002-03 and 2015-16 (the honours list gives 2003-04 for the last); Liverpool Senior Cup winners nine times; Cheshire County League champions in 1973-74, 1975-76 and 1977-78; FA Amateur Cup runners-up in 1931-32, losing 7-1 to Dulwich Hamlet. FA Trophy semi-finalists in 1983-84, 1991-92 and 2025-26.
Notable scorelines
Marine reached the FA Cup third round in 1992-93, losing 3-1 to Crewe Alexandra, and again in 2020-21, when they lost 5-0 to Tottenham Hotspur, a gap of 161 places, the largest in FA Cup history; virtual tickets raised over 300,000 pounds. They have beaten Barnsley, Halifax Town and Colchester United in the competition. The club's record win and record defeat were not established from the sources read here.
European record
None. Marine have never played in a European competition, as far as the sources read here show.
Quotes
No directly quoted material was confirmed from the sources read here.
Right now (2026-27 season)
Marine play in the National League North. A fan-site table with no stated update time had them 18th with 16 points from 14 games and a goal difference of minus two. Recent results were a 4-2 defeat at Buxton on 31 October 2026, a 2-1 defeat at Chester on 27 October, a 1-1 home draw with Oxford City on 24 October and a 1-0 home win over Spalding United on 10 October. They won 2-0 at Hartlepool in the FA Cup on 17 October 2026.
In the first round proper they are away at Bradford, listed on the fan site as Bradford, on Saturday 7 November 2026, 15:00 UK time. Their summer transfer business was not established from the sources read here.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_A.F.C. https://fanbanter.co.uk/national-league-north/marine/
Researched and written for not4quarters. Where a fact could not be established from the sources read, this page says so rather than guessing.